Proving the Unseen
Photo by Ian Britton
Just because you can’t see or feel it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Take radio waves, for instance. Although we can’t see or feel radio waves, we undoubtedly know they exist. In fact, we even invented a device called the radio that can receive and transmit radio waves.
Physicists will agree that nature is bound by certain physical laws, often referred to as the Laws of Physics. Technology is our way of using or accessing, for example, the unseen world of physical phenomenon such as radio waves.
Science textbooks teach us that radio waves are all around us. The Gospel teaches us something very similar. Just like radio waves, the influence of the Holy Ghost is all around us, and just like the radio technology, our spiritual bodies are designed to access the influence of the Holy Ghost.
But now, just as there are the “Laws of Physics” that must be understood and followed in order to successfully utilize or access physical phenomenon, there are the “Laws of the Gospel” that we must understand and follow in order to successfully utilize and access the spirit.
Just as there are laws that govern the temporal (or physical world), there are laws that govern the spiritual. And both must be understood.
There are very few people (or hardly anyone that I know of) who would argue that radio waves do not exist. In fact, experiments have been done to prove that they do exist.
Question: What experiments can you do to test if the spirit exists?
Answer: Follow the Laws of the Gospel. Pretty plain and simple, huh?
Experimenting is taking a leap of faith (Alma 32:27). Someone had to first believe that radio waves existed, and then later put it to the test.
Alma 32:27
But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.
Sources:
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/radio.htm
http://www.britannica.com
http://www.merriam-webster.com
Filed under: Exploring Phenomenons, Patterns in Technology
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